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Saturday, October 30. 2010

Lord help me and eternal hell on Graeme Pitt for badgering me into this ...

"This Movember I've decided to donate my face to raising awareness about prostate cancer. My donation and commitment is the growth of a moustache for the entire month of Movember, which I know will generate conversation, much laughter and ritual abuse. As I’m sure you can imagine, the thought of growing a pitiful imitation of a moustache fills me with horror and there is every prospect that I will chicken out at some stage unless sponsorship commitments mean I have too much to lose. However, in the spirit of full disclosure, I plan to shave it off on Monday 29th Movember at the UKOUG conference in Birmingham.

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men. One man dies every hour from the disease in the UK. I'm asking you to support my efforts by making a donation to The Prostate Cancer Charity. To help, you can either: - Click this link http://uk.movember.com/donate/your-details/member_id/763450/ and donate online using your credit card or PayPal account . Or,- Send cheques and CAF vouchers (made payable to 'The Prostate Cancer Charity Re Movember') directly to The Prostate Cancer Charity, First Floor, Cambridge House, Cambridge Grove, London W6 0LE. Be sure to include the person's name on the back of the cheque.

The Prostate Cancer Charity will use the money raised by Movember for the development of programs related to awareness, public education, advocacy, support of those affected, and research into the prevention, detection, treatment and cure of prostate cancer.

For more details on the impact Movember is having please visit http://uk.movemberfoundation.com/research-and-programs.

Thank you in advance for helping me to support men's health and putting me through a month of miserable embarrassment.

Cheers,

Doug Burns

P.S. How on earth did I allow myself to be talked into this?P.P.S. Perhaps I could run a marathon instead?"

It's a minor source of frustration to me that you can't just paste a Hypertext link into the comments form here but, should you ever want to include a link, all you need to do is use the BBCode format, as mentioned below the comment form.

Here is a link to the relevant part of the document that explains how.